NEW GLASGOW

town, Pictou county, northern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies along the East River, 104 miles (167 km) northeast of Halifax. Founded in 1809, following the discovery of local coal deposits in 1798, it was named by William Fraser, a Scot, who surveyed the site and envisaged another Glasgow on the Clyde (the East River). It developed as a shipbuilding port and as a service centre for a farming and coal-mining region. The town now manufactures railway and heavy machinery, boilers, fabricated steel, tires, pulp and paper, and mattresses. Samson, the first Canadian locomotive built (1839) to operate on steel rails, may be seen at the town's Canadian National Railway station. Inc. 1875. Pop. (1991) 9,905.